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There is shocking new evidence that
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Google has interfered with
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our elections, in fact, at
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least forty one times
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over the last sixteen years. That's
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what the Media Research Center is now saying
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in a new report that totally exposes
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the bias and influence that
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Google has over our elections,
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with new accusations that they actually
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could be changing the number of votes
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by millions, tilting
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the scales for the candidates that they choose.
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Now, we've known for a long time that Google
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has been biased, we had no
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idea just how bias it was until
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we found out that Google picked winners
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and losers with major elections
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in the United States of America forty one times
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over the last sixteen years. No
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organization has more control over information
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than Google. That is a fact Google.
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We now are there being accused of interfering
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with major elections in the US
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over forty one times. The
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MRC research found forty one times
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quote where Google interfer in elections over the last
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sixteen years, and its impact has surged
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dramatically maken even more harmful
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to democracy. In every case, Google
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harmed the candidates, regardless
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of party, who threatened its left wing
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candidate of choice. That
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is what the MRC Free Speech America
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Vice President dam Schneider and editor wrote
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in a summary of their findings, quote
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from the mauls of Google executives, the tech giant
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let slip what was never
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meant to be made public. That Google
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uses its great strength and resources and
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reach to advance its leftist
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values. Google outsized
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influence on information technology
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the body of the politics
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and the American election became
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evident in two thousand and eight, after
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failing to prevent ken for President
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Donald Trump from being inaugurated. Following the twenty
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sixteen election, Google has sense
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made it clear to any
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discerning observer that
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it has been and will continue to interfere
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in America's elections.
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Google pushing back this morning, insisting
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that it has a clear business incentive to keep
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both sides happy and that safeguards
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ensure non biased and accurate research
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results well. MRC
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Free Speech America division of the Conservative
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Media Research Center believes the most recent example
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was recorded after Google's artificial
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intelligence Jemini, refused to answer
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questions damaging to
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President Joe Biden. The
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group's research found that from two
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thousand and eight through February of twenty twenty
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four, Google has utilized
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its power to help push for electoral
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victory the most liberal candidates, regardless
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of party, while targeting their opponents for
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censorship. Examples,
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which is what matters to all of us the most
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include appearing to favor Barack Obama
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over John McKennon in two thousand and eight, favoring
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Obama over Mit Romney
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in twenty twelve, refusing
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to correct a Google bomb that smeared
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then leading GOP primary candidate
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for president Rix Antorum, using
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its algorithm to exclude auto
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fill results that were potentially
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damaging to Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen,
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not doing the same for then candidate Donald
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Trump or Bernie Sanders, and
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working with partners to help likely
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pro Clinton Latino voters go
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to the polls the same year. This according
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to the New Bombshell Research.
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Other examples cited include
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disabling Tulsi Gabbard's ad
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account just a just as she became
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the most searched candidate following
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the first Democratic primary
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debate in twenty twenty, suppressing
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new news critical of Joe
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Biden, for example, and
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concealing most Republican campaign
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websites for the twelve
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competitive Senate races in twenty twenty
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two. Let me say that again. They
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suppressed news this is
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Google news
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that was critical of
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Joe Biden. At the same time
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they were concealing most
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Republican campaign websites for
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the twelve most competitive
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Senate races in twenty
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twenty two. Okay, that's
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very significant, and
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aiding Biden in twenty
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twenty four. They're now accusing them of by
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burying in its search results the
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campaign websites of
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every one of his significant
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opponents. And that's what's happening
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right now in real time the
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case study. He cites several other examples
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as well of where Google is
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tipping the scales, saying quote,
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utilizing the many tools in its arsenal,
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Google aided those who most
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closely aligned with its leftist
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values from election cycle to election cycle
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sentence as far back as the two thousand and eight presidential
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election. Meanwhile, it
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targeted for censorship those candidates
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who posed the most serious threat to
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Google. While its interference
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was first evident in twenty
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two thousand and eight, its meddling
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is turned into an organizational mission
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to ensure that it's candidates win on
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election day. Many
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studies reveal the results of the tech giants'
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commitment. They
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also cited doctor
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Robert Epstein, who performed additional
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research and found that Google's search algorithms
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likely shifted at least two point
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six million votes to Hillary Clinton
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twenty sixteen, and
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that Google's results and get out
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the Vote reminders favored Democrats
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in targeting of them and shifted the twenty twenty
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election results by at least six million votes.
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They believe. So it's
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not just that they're stifling
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information that's positive
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for conservative candidates and harmful
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maybe to Democrats. It's the
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fact that when they're out there in their algorithm,
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they look at who they're marketing to
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to get out the vote. So Google
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is reminding liberal
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voters those that are more likely to vote for Hillary
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Clinton or a Bernie Sanders or Barack
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Obama or Joe
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Biden to get out the vote. Hey, reminding
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you got to vote, reminding you to register to vote, reminding
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you to register to vote and get out to vote, and remind you
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to election tomorrow. They were reminding
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Democrats, not Republicans, on purpose.
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They believe the power because almost every
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American that's on the Internet
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uses Google. I use it every day. I think you probably
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most of you listening right now. I use it every day. They
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would have the ability to then remind those
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voters who are Democrats. They have
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all your data, They know who you are, they know who you
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voted for, they know if you vote in the last elections,
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and they know if you're registered to vote. They
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would then market to you and
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remind you to go vote, knowing that you're going to vote
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Democrat over Republicans. This
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new research says that they shifted the
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twenty twenty election results by at least six
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million votes. Google
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is coming out this morning and Google spokesman
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is denying quote any wrongdoing, which is exactly
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what you would expect from them. By the way, quote,
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there is absolutely nothing new here. Google
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says a new statement just to recycle list
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of baseless, inaccurate compt complaints
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that have been debunked by third parties and many that
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failed in the courts. Politicians
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on the left have a long history of making similar claims
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too. We have a clear business
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incentive to keep everyone using our products. By
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the way, that's not true. I'll explain
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that in a moment. Google goes on to
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say we have no desire to make them by
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or inaccurate and have safeguards in place
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to ensure this. Numerous conservatives have been
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particularly successful in using our platform to
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spread their message to a wide audience.
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Google has said it restricted the types of
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election related queries on Gemini out
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of an abundance of caution. That's their
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AI basically mothership, directing
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users to Google Search instead.
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As for Tulsea Gabbard's
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ads, Google's pointed to a federal judge
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just missing a lawsuit she filed against the company
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on the matter, saying see nothing to see here.
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The Conservative WATCHSDAW group deels that
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this is an important issue that actually should be going
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to Congress, saying that free
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speech Americans offered three
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recommendations of what should happen. They
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say, Number one, Speaker Mike Johnsons should
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direct relevant committees and committee chairmen
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to investigate Google for basically
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attacking and abridging the
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people's constitutional rights in this country by
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coordinating with government to
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violate freedom of speech, as
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well as interfering in elections by making unreported
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in kind contributions to
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the Democratic candidates, and
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for defrauding its users by failing
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to meet its terms of service. The
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group also feels state legislators should
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legislatures should resolve any questions
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of whether Google is a common carrier
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and urge Americans to stop using Google products,
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particularly its search engine, saying
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this from our research, alternatives appear to
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be better to produce better,
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less bias results. This
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is significant, folks, and
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Google, of course coming out, we're going to
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deny it. Side note here if you
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try to Google the story, it comes down halfway
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through the page, not at the top. Just thought i'd
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throw that in there. Yeah, so
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you can decide for yourself if you think they're suppressing
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information. I think it's pretty clear that they are.
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Media Research Center has found forty
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one different They say we're Google
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directly interfered in elections and
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it had a major impact and surged
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dramatically of the side
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they wanted to win. In every
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case, Google harmed the candidates that
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they wanted to harm, regardless
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of party. Those who threatened
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it's left leaning and left wing
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candidates of choice. That is a new
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accusation by the Media Research
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Center. Free Speech America
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Vice President Dan Snyder is
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now going to join me to talk about this exact
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detail. Dan, I appreciate
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you coming on, and Google
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is something that we know
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is powerful for the left. We know
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that they have an ally, we
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know that they have suppressed just
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basic search engine issues,
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but this is the first time that we're actually
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seeing what Google is doing directly to
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interfere with our elections.
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Tell us a little bit more about the background
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in this and how you guys, we're able to find all this out.
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Well. Look, Google has been actively
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involved in elections for a long time, and
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on a legal basis, their
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president, CEO, Chamber of the Board
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endorsed Democrats for office
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all the time. Its employees have
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largely given exclusively to the
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left ninety plus percent of the time.
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Under federal election campaign disclosure
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requirements, you can see Google
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statements have been all left wing. But what
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we have not been able to see is what
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they're doing with their one point seven
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trillion dollar corporation behind
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the scenes. You can't look
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into their little black box of algorithms
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and see exactly how they're working. But we've
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been able to piece together lots of different things
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and see the consequences of their
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work, and time and time again,
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the evidence shows that if you
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are an opponent of their candidate
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of choice, Google's going to bury
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you.
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So let's talk about how they pick winners
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and losers here. And when you say they're going to bury
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us, give us examples of what that actually
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looks like. You're running for office, Google
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doesn't like you, You're not their
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candidate of choice. How much impact
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can they actually have over your campaign?
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Well, look, in the twenty twenty
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two Senate races, there
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were about a dozen Senate races
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that were being hotly contested, and
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we did a study, and we did this repeatedly.
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We would search for, you know, the
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campaign websites. We would simply search
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for, you know, like Adam Laxalt,
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you know, Senate campaign in Nevada,
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and Google would not give you his campaign
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website. But Google would certainly,
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you know, turn over the website
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of his opponent when you did the same search for
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her, and over and over again,
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ten out of the twelve Republican
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Senate campaign websites would be
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buried by Google, either not showing
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up at all all, were showing up
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way low in search results. But a majority
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of the time, literally Google would not
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produce the campaign website for the Republican
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seeking the Senate seat in that in that
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race. More recently, before
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each of the four Republican presidential
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campaign debates, We
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did two searches. We searched
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for Democrat
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presidential campaign websites and
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we then searched for Republican presidential
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campaign websites. And look, we
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expected to see Joe Biden at the top of the list
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when we search for Democrat presidential campaign
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websites, and he was every single
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time, Joe Biden was at the top. But
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guess what, our FK Junior didn't
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show up at all. Google
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buried RFK Junior's campaign website,
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the single greatest threat that Joe Biden
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winning the nomination. They buried a site.
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But here I want to be clear,
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though, it's not what you're saying. Is it's
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not that Google is just out
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to get conservatives or Republican candidates
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that they don't like. It is
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if you're not the candidate they choose,
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even in the Democratic primary, if
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they decide, hey, we like
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this person more because they're going to be
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better for us. We're going
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to help you win even in the Democratic
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races over other Democrats.
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That's right, Tulca Gabbard RFK
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Junior most recently, but even
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going back to two thousand and eight, when
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the young Senator Barack Obama was
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challenging Hillary Clinton. Google
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was bearing pro
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Clinton blogs
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and highlighting pro Obama blogs.
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Wow, but here, let me get to this. But here's
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the most shocking example here. When
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we search for Republican presidential campaign
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websites, well, just like we saw Joe
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Biden at the top of the heap, we would have expected
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to see Donald Trump
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at the top of the heap. But not only was
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Donald Trump's campaign websit not produced
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at all by Google. It only
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produced two campaign webs And
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this is every single time we did this study.
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The first one was Mary Ann Williamson,
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a Democrat, again searching
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for Republican presidential campaign websites.
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One of the only two campaign websites that Google
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would give us Marian Williamson's
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campaign website, and the other was
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Will Hurd, who was scoring zero
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in the nationwide polling. But
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Google would not give us Joe Biden,
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the ak Ramaswami, Ron De Santis, Nikki
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Haley, anybody else, any Republican,
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just one Democrat and
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one Republicans pulling at zero
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percent.
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You and I both know that in politics,
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and my guests from me is Dan Schneider Media
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Research Center. They do an amazing work
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to expose what we're talking about right now,
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you should check them out, help them, support them,
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because they're doing amazing work and without
15:51
you, guys, they cannot get it done. So I want
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to make that very clear. But you
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talk about these moments
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in politics where I can, it would surge.
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Right.
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Toulsi Gabbard is a great example. In the Democratic primary
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when she was running for president, she had
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a moment. And what happens
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after a candidate has a moment is
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people immediately go to Google to find out
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more about the person or to even
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you know, get involved in their campaign.
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Talk a little bit about what they did to influence
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and suppress her. For example, when she was running
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as a Democrat.
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Right, so, she did an
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amazing job in a debate, and
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the whole world suddenly was looking at Tulsi
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Gabbard as an alternative to Joe Biden,
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and right as she
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was searching, right as everybody was interested
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in her, Google burieder. They
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eliminated her ads. Right when
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you would need to be able to you know, when her
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campaign needed to tell everybody who she is
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and also to raise money, Google
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eliminated her from search results.
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What was the reasoning behind that that Google
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gave for shutting down her ad accounts,
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so she could not advertise when she had that
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moment to people that maybe were searching for her.
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You know, Google seems always to have these
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glitches, and Google say, well, there
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was just a glitch. There was a glitch when
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Hillary Clinton's in two
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thousand and eight, when Hillary Clinton's
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you know blogs pro Clinton blogs
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were suddenly buried, and there was just
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some kind of a glitch with Tulsi Gabbard, And
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there's just there's always a glitch. And
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sometimes they don't have any responses at all. By the way,
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in this most recent study of ours, Google
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has said that every one of our forty
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one examples has been refuted. That is
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just a lie. You know. For
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example, the the I
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just told you about the presidential campaign searches
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that we did where Donald Trump is completely
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buried over and over and over. Google
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has never refuted that. Nobody
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has ever suggested
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what we reported was wrong. So Google
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just makes up stuff? Response,
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was it all? Yeah?
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Google pushback saying, quote, we
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have a a clear
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quote business incentive to keep
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both sides happy, and that safeguards
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ensure non bias and accurate search
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results. That's a great
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line written by a PR person
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at Google, but it doesn't back up with the
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facts. Is what you're saying.
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Those are words. Those are mere
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words. I can say the sky is green. It doesn't
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make it so Google can say anything at once.
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It didn't point to any evidence, you know,
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to support the words that it spewed
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out of its mouth.
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Establishment Republicans have also
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not fared well when they are the
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nominee. An example of this is
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it was obvious that Google was favoring
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Barack Obama over John McCain in two thousand and
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eight, more the establishment candidate. It
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even screwed with Mitt Romney in
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twenty twelve, refusing
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to correct a Google bomb that
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smeared the then leading GOP primary
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candidate for president, for example, Rick
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Santorum, with using
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its algorithm to exclude auto results
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that were potentially damaging to Hillary
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Clinton. Explain that as well, these auto field
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results and the other things.
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Yeah, so let me just remind everybody
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Rix Santorum was actually leading
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among all Republicans in that in that primary,
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and just as he was surging, there
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was a thing, you know, it is a popular thing back then,
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these Google bombs where people would
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kind of create false websites and and
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redefine a person
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or an issue, and these Google bombs
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were created that said the most heinous,
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abhorrent things about Rix Sntorum.
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Now, Google had a policy anytime
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that some organization or some person
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got bombed, Google would take down
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those sites, you know, because it was
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it was misinformation, it was false,
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it was they were lies. When
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it came to Rick Santorum, Google
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refused to take down those Google bombs.
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So if you tried to google Rix Sntorum and find anything
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out about him, you were directed to these
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false, inflammatory, libel
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campaign sites that were attacking
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him. Saying, again, you can't even say
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these things, you know,
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without being too embarrassed, because they're just
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the most vile, disgusting things
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that people were being told about. Falsehood's
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about rix Andorum. I mean, just outright, you
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know, fabricated stuff.
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Dan, let me ask you another question about Google,
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and this goes back to Mitt Romney
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John McCain that I mentioned. What
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we're seeing with Google is they're
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not saying they hate Donald Trump and MAGA.
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They're saying we hate anyone that's not our
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guy, and every year that guy can
20:36
change. So we'll treat
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Donald Trump the same way we treated Mitt
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Romney or Rick Santorum or John McCain
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if the person we want to win is
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on the other side. So if you think
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they're only being mean to like MAGA conservatives,
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you're wrong. They want these
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Democrat hardcore lefties to win
20:54
every election no matter what.
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Yeah, that's right. And as we discussed
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earlier, will include picking
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you know, a more liberal Democrat
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and suppressing a slightly
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more you know, or less liberal Democrat.
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And so they've got their candidate
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of choice, and you better not be
21:15
the opponent otherwise you're gonna they're gonna
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be hell to pay.
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This isn't just on the national level
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of presidential campaigns, and that's where
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Google stops doing this. You guys
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also looked at some of
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the most competitive, the twelve most competitive
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Senate races in twenty twenty two. What
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did you find out when it came to Senate races?
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Right, So, the so Google
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buried you know, the Senate candidates
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in those twelve competitive races every
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time except for two for
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whatever reason. You know, in
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the Washington Prime. In the Washington
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race the state of Washington, Patty
21:54
Murray actually fared worse
21:56
than the Republicans. But in every other
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case, you know, the Republican was buried.
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Now here's where it gets really really
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interesting. It shows how clever Google
22:06
really is. People will recall
22:08
that there was a runoff in Georgia
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where herschel Walker and his Democrat opponent
22:14
neither got fifty percent, when under Georgia
22:16
law, they had to go to a runoff. So
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we went to Georgia and again
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these are using clean computers, no
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cookies, all that, and we went
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to the precinct level again
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looking for herschel Walker's campaign website
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and looking for his opponent's campaign website. And
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at the precinct level we discovered that those
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precincts that were heavily Democrat
22:37
there was no bias, and those precincts
22:39
that were heavily Republican no bias.
22:42
But in the precincts that were going to toss
22:44
up precincts where the
22:46
Democrat needed votes to be able to
22:49
win beat herschel Walker, that's
22:51
where we saw the bias again. That's where herschel
22:53
Walker's campaign website was buried, but
22:55
the Democrats was elevated to the top of search
22:57
results.
22:59
It's incredible. Let's dive into how
23:01
much of an influence this actually could have had.
23:03
Because it's one thing to give the accusation and
23:06
to show that proof, but then to talk about
23:09
how much of an impact that could this have had on
23:11
our elections. You guys worked
23:13
with doctor Robert Epstein, who performed
23:16
additional research and found that Google
23:18
search algorithms likely shifted
23:21
millions of votes just
23:24
to Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen alone,
23:26
for example, and then you found even
23:28
after that, even more votes. We're talking
23:30
about millions that would have favored
23:32
Democrats in twenty twenty. Dive into
23:35
that for us, right.
23:36
So, doctor Epstein is a PhD
23:39
statistician. He did all of his work
23:41
at Harvard. He is a liberal
23:44
himself. He is a self proclaimed Democrat.
23:47
He admits he voted for Hillary Clinton.
23:49
He is not a partisan. He is not
23:52
doing this work to try to help Republicans. He's
23:54
just very concerned about democracy.
23:57
So he yea his research and is
23:59
very sophisticated. It's seen how
24:03
Google interacts with users, what kind
24:05
of results are produced, and how
24:07
that alters people's behavior. So
24:09
he is estimated in the twenty twenty election alone,
24:12
anywhere from six to eight
24:14
million votes were swayed against
24:17
Donald Trump in favor of Joe Biden
24:20
nationwide six to eight
24:22
million. Had it not been for Google,
24:25
it would have been a landslide victory for Donald
24:27
Trump. And let
24:30
me just reiterate, Doctor Epstein
24:33
is a liberal, and he's testified before
24:35
Congress he has no interest
24:40
in seeing Republicans win races.
24:43
He only cares about the rights of the
24:45
voter and to have that voter's votes
24:47
be counted fairly.
24:49
Talk about the amount of influence
24:52
so people understand. I mean, I look,
24:54
I use Google every day. You guys
24:56
are now saying it's time to use another search
24:58
engine because of what they're doing. I
25:01
totally support that idea,
25:03
but the reality is overwhelming.
25:06
The majority of Americans go to Google for pretty
25:08
much anything they need to search. How much
25:12
penetration and market share does Google have
25:14
over the American voter?
25:16
You know, there are different numbers. It's anywhere
25:18
from ninety three to ninety six. Ninety
25:20
seven percent of all search is done,
25:23
you know, using the Google search engine.
25:26
Yeah, and it's got so many other products
25:28
too, like Google News. And this is
25:31
another shocking thing. There's
25:34
one legitimate outfit out there that sort
25:36
of rates media outlets of whether they're left
25:39
of center or right of center. It's called All Sides.
25:41
It's a reliable organization. We don't always
25:44
agree with them, but they're pretty good
25:46
all using All Sides data,
25:49
you can see that Google News. If
25:51
you're searching anything about Trump, Biden
25:54
or elections, Google News would
25:56
link to zero zero
26:00
right of center media outlets,
26:02
almost exclusively to
26:05
left wing outlets. Occasionally
26:07
some some what are called neutral outlets.
26:09
But yeah, Like, if you're searching on
26:12
Google News for stories about the election, ninety
26:16
seven percent of
26:18
the articles that were linked to were
26:20
to left wing outlets
26:23
Donald Trump and Joe Biden. If you're looking
26:25
for stories of on Google News about
26:27
either of them, again, zero percent,
26:30
you know, linked to conservative outlets. The
26:32
great bulk were linked to to left
26:35
of center or left wing outlets. This
26:37
is what Google. This is how Google News and Google
26:40
more broadly influences the
26:42
mind. People think they're learning, people
26:44
think they're getting information news, they're
26:46
only getting Google propaganda.
26:49
Lastly, what are you guys asking
26:51
Congress to do? I know there's been conversations
26:54
with Speaker Johnson about
26:56
this because this seems like this would fall
26:58
under an in kind contribution
27:00
to democratic candidates. What Google is doing?
27:03
Is there a chance that we could see some sort
27:05
of significant reform here to make this
27:08
not happen every single election cycle.
27:11
Yeah, Ben, I
27:13
want to make sure people understand this is shocking.
27:16
The media has an exception here. So let's take
27:18
the media out of it. Your media, so
27:20
you're not a part of what I'm about to say. But
27:23
today in America, you're
27:25
an individual. You do not
27:27
have free speech rights. If
27:29
I want to say something political and
27:32
I want to promote what I
27:34
am saying, So like, let's
27:36
say I write a speech and I want to
27:38
send my speech about
27:41
a candidate or about a policy
27:43
matter, and I want to send it to a thousand
27:45
friends, and I print out my speech to send
27:47
to a thousand friends. By law,
27:50
I am required to file with a
27:52
federal election commission. I have to log
27:55
my speech, and if I don't, it can
27:57
be considered a crime. It can be fine
28:00
by the federal government for speaking,
28:03
for trying to amplify my voice.
28:05
But if you're Google today, the Federal
28:07
Election Commission says it can do whatever
28:10
it wants. It can bury, it can use
28:12
its resources, it's fast resources,
28:15
it can bury campaign websites. It can treat
28:17
the Democrats far better than the Republicans.
28:19
And it's not considered a campaign contribution,
28:22
it's not considered an in time contribution, and
28:24
there's no filing required. Today,
28:27
big tech has far
28:29
more free speech rights than I do.
28:32
Unbelievable. If people want to get
28:34
this report and want to find out more, where
28:36
can they go?
28:37
Dan Right, So the media research
28:39
centers big publications
28:42
called NewsBusters NewsBusters
28:44
dot org. You can go there to find
28:46
this report. You know the study. It's
28:49
about a twenty page study documenting
28:51
you know, these forty one times over sixteen
28:54
years that Google has interfered in our elections.
28:56
This is going to trickle out. I have
28:58
a feeling more. I'm going to cover it all
29:00
for you. Make sure that you download
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